I love my new bed

My new bed finally arrived on Monday 27 Feb after almost one month of waiting. It cost me $3,300 for a king size mattress with headboard. It was after much reading over the Internet on the different brands of bed before making up my mind on the Slumberland TempSmart II that come with Horse Hair. When I chat with the friends and ask about horse hair, none of them seemed to know about using horse hair as bed materials. Totally intrigued by the use of horse hair in bed mattress, I decided to do a bit of research on it, and interestingly the use of horse was in fact nothing new.

The New York Times in July 2007 published an article "The money's in the mattress". Read this link on mattress that could cost you $20,000 and more.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/garden/12mattresses.html?pagewanted=print

If one day, you strike lottery, do consider buying a bed from Hastens and please let me go to your place to try it out. You will make my dream of owning one come almost true!
http://www.hastens.com/en/

More about Horsehair

More about Horse Hair..
Few materials can match horsehair when it comes to making a bed. Horsehair comes with its own, extremely effective, built-in ventilation system.

Moisture passes through the hollow strands so quickly that if you wet horsehair with water and give it a shake, it dries straight away. So horses have their own air conditioning system that keeps them dry in the heat of summer. This quick-drying property is perfect for a mattress because body temperatures often transform into moisture in the form of perspiration.

Caring for Heidi's injured wrist

Oliver showed his care and concern for Heidi when Heidi fell from the wooden chair and hurt her wrist. We gave him the cold compressed pack and he was rather skilled at it, perhaps Oliver saw teachers doing that in school. Both of them seemed to enjoy their role as caregiver and patient.

MacRitchie Treetop Walk

We always wanted them to get close to nature, but music classes, naptime, weather and other distractions meant that we don't do it as often as we wanted to.
We managed to explore the trail from Venus Drive carpark to the treetop walk and back, on Sunday in the middle of the afternoon when the morning crowd has long gone. Can you spot the monkey in the picture? Not the one with the dimples.
After 4km or so of trekking, we reached the start of the suspension bridge. The view was great, if only we can park our car nearby...Rewarding our monkeys to carry on walking back to the start point. The bridge reminded me of Perth. Oliver can't remember though.
The whole journey was about 8km. Oliver walked the distance, and Heidi almost did, until the last stretch when she fell asleep on my shoulder.

Another musical genius in the house

I was extremely surprised by Heidi last Saturday before and during music class, so much so that even getting a parking summon didn't bother me.

Firstly, when we reached Forum, Heidi want me to go with her to the class. That's really strange, normally she would want Sophia.

At music class, she is usually non-participative despite egging by either me or Sophia. But last Saturday, she started as usual but suddenly... she just tranformed into another Heidi. Not only was she quick to respond to Ms Elaine's questions, and she also seemed to know all her notes and colouring really well. Everything that Elaine asked, she had an answer for it and was always the first to answer.

And for the first time, she walked out to the piano herself and played the notes! Awesome.

Hello Kitty

Keisuke Tonkotsu King

This relatively new ramen store opened along with the new badly-named Orchid Hotel near our place. The joint seems quite authentic, with old Japanese movie posters, old Japanese songs, and Jap-speaking crew.

We have been there a few times without Heidi and Oliver, as the place is really quite small and usually there is a long queue before their dinner opening hour at 6pm.

This was the first time Heidi was there as she was on a 2-day MC. We bet Oliver would love the place too due to the free-flow of hard-boiled eggs on the table. I always thought the Heidi only doodles aimlessly, but was very surprised that Heidi could draw quite well and purposefully - the reptile-like creatures were definitely having a conversation about the menu.